A study of color by CTG Publishing. Take an Eugene Grasset poster and play with the background color + a tribute to the 2014 color of the year - the poster entirely in purple (HTML B163A3). [caption id="attachment_16758" align="aligncenter" width="604"] Eugene Grasset Poster with Grey-Green Background[/caption] [caption id="attachment_16759" align="aligncenter" width="604"]…

[caption id="attachment_3828" align="aligncenter" width="650"] View of Trocadero through the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Image from the Library of Congress.[/caption] Discover the Paris of 1900. Take a trip back in time to Paris when the city was filled with the sights and sounds of the Great Fair.…

Walking home from a night out, I looked up and saw the moon. My neighbor, Elisa, informed me that it was a blue moon. It did not look blue. What I found out is copied below but also makes me wonder if the volcanic eruption of 1883 inspired Eugene Grasset's…

I am fortunate enough to have several originals pages from La Belle Jardinière calendar dated 1896. I may post the full originals but thought that closeups would be an interesting way to view the work. One of Eugene Grasset's students remarked how the details draws (or seduces) the viewer into…

In a previous edition of delsc, Art Nouveau decorative designs of mainly a floral nature were presented to the reader. This current supplemental edition focuses on fauna and extends the CTG survey of Art Nouveau to some artists that have yet to appear in any of the publications. This current…